HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern 
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
Page 780
ROBERT E. CLASBY, farmer, was born in Virginia in the year 1821.
His father, Thomas Clasby, lived and died in the Old Dominion, and, after 
his death, his son, Robert, then only seven years of age, was brought to 
Kentucky by an uncle named Daniel Rucker, of Bourbon County.
After a short term at school, the lad became a carpenter's apprentice, and 
when he had become a journeyman, at the age of nineteen years, he went to 
Missouri; worked at his trade for four years in that State, and for four 
years longer in Bourbon County, Ky., whiter he had returned, and where he 
married, January 16, 1848, Martha, daughter of Jacob Hutsell.
He next went to farming, and has continued in that occupation to the present 
time, having now one of the finest farms in Fayette County, consisting of 
238 acres of excellent land in Brier Hill Precinct, and lying alongside the 
Bryant's Station & Chilesburg road.
He is a large breeder of Short-Horn cattle.
His wife is a member of Antioch Christian Church.
They have eight Children: Mary Catharine, Georgiana, William Thomas, Edward, 
Jacob, Mattie G., Walter and Robert.
William is married to miss Mattie Downing, and Jacob lives in Missouri.
Clasby Rucker Hutsell Downing
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VA Bourbon-KY MO

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